s_Hogg

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by s_Hogg 7y ago
What sort of browser extension are you thinking of that would only take a couple of days?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I tried feeding some of the phonetically spelled stuff into google translate and it was completely lost at sea. So no worries about the claim this could stuff up NLP/search, then.
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HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts to shut out trolls(news.rthk.hk)
170 points by s_Hogg 7y ago|43 comments
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Is it still fair if they end it in 2 months? Anytime someone calls something fair, I wonder if the question "for whom?" should be asked. Seems to me like those in HK have no real control over their fate, whether as part of Britain
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
The amount of hair-splitting that goes into discussing this subject is unbelievable. Clearly, they both are fairly closely intertwined - particularly given that one potential explanation boils down to the motivation of the user. So do we ne
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Don't we already make an excess amount of food on earth? This seems handy for off-planet, though.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
> If I understand correctly That's more or less it. Silence can be as telling as its absence in cases like these, I think. > That's not being suggested. Fair enough, apologies for creating the impression if that happened. Ho
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I agree that the racists on 8chan who are in favour of mass shootings are still racists on 8chan in favour of mass shootings. That needs to stop, and this alone doesn't achieve it. But society drawing boundaries about their behaviour i
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I'm aware of that but nonetheless believe it's a step in the right direction and that they should be congratulated. I don't think this means anyone should give them an easier time as a result. Countering radicalisation involv
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
There are already people doing that stuff. Given that's the case, why should they not act?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Seems to me like a lot of the arguments against why this shouldn't happen or isn't effective basically amount to some sort of whatabouttery. Well done Cloudflare, I hope their next host takes the same attitude or can be induced to
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
What's the current preferred alternative to Jira?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Hmm fair point
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Is there actually a decent alternative to JS for front end stuff? Another part of the solution to this language turning into the blob monster from the end of Akira surely has to be making those with an interest in the language's succes
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Hear, hear. There's a reason newer edition cards don't feature that ability. It's incredibly annoying.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I think that argument is advanced by a fair few companies to justify losing money indefinitely. A tweet (which I now can't find), once said that "the ability to sustain losses indefinitely is the 'moat' of this economic
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
gah I watched The Smartest Guys In the Room the other day and that was only one of the things they tried to trade. Interestingly, their broadband trading thing doesn't look as insane a decade or so later. They tried to do a deal with B
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
This is the problem - how to disincentivise that behaviour?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
High-velocity ecosystems like this make it way too easy to optimise your code for getting pats on the head. It's good that people are pointing out things like this (relatively speaking) not long after the fact, and that a lot of people
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A Hack to Avoid Labelling Topic Classification Data(breakitdownto.earth)
1 points by s_Hogg 7y ago|0 comments
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I watched the announcement and it seemed like more talk than action. A few new inquiries to report in a year or so and a new unit in the ACCC for big tech companies to capture. Not much new legislation, though.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
This reminds me of the cheap water purification thing that got rolled out across poorer bits of Africa. Any cost reduction possibilities for this design?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Why? Darknet uses a plain text file for model architecture to create SOTA object detection models and that doesn't seem to be a problem at all. I get that it could be a problem if there are specific super-crazy things you want to achie
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
There's an implicit assumption in this argument that the law as it stands is fine and not in need of changes itself.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Are you saying that because you think it's a good thing or a bad thing? Seems to me like either (or both) of these could be the case.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I accept that, but policy seems to enforce single family home neighbourhoods in many places. This exacerbates the problem of haves and have-nots in the housing market. I'm not in the "ban SFH neighbourhoods" camp, but I think
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
How is the desirability of homes in single family neighbourhoods inconsistent with the fact that they tend towards creating haves and have-nots in the market for housing?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
It appears I had forgotten about that back-story!
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Yep, that's the one!
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Totally, I think there are a lot of cases where all that machinery is actually completely superfluous anyway because thinking about the problem you're trying to solve could lead you to a way of doing it that doesn't need all that

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